[H-GEN] Compressing mail attachments

Marshall, Joshua MarshallJ at switch.aust.com
Wed Oct 13 22:52:12 EDT 1999


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Hi All,

Just thinking aloud: I'm wondering if it would be possible to intercept
emails as they pass through the relay (sendmail), and pull out all the
attachments, compress them with a compressor such as "zip" and insert the
compressed file in place of the original, before passing the message along.

It would surely reduce the bandwidth - particularly when people are "too
lazy" to compress a file before sending it.

I have half an idea about how to do it, but I'm not 100% sure if it's
possible.

Cheers,
Josh.

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